Scientific Taxonomy

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GENERAL NOTE: Heinrich Kuhl (1797-1821), a German zoologist, was an assistant in the Leiden Museum, Holland. In 1819 he published Conspectus psittacorum, and also the first monograph on petrels. He went to Java, in the Netherlands East Indies in 1820 and sent back an enormous collection of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, insects and crustaceans. He died in 1821 after less than a year in Java of a liver infection brought on the climate and overexertion. His colleague continued to collect specimens, but died in 1823.

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:Mangaia: recorded in the oldest archaeological layer of 1000AD (J) and not recorded after 1200AD (G), Steadman & Kirch (1990) as Vini kuhlii. Atiu: fieldspecimen+photo, 2007/April, G.McCormack, 27 birds reintroduced from Rimatara on 24 April.